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TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her

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